stimulus package

The eye-popping 4 trillion yuan stimulus package unveiled by China's State Council this week is to be spent over the next two years.

Maine Senator Susan Collins was one of only three Republicans to back Mr. Obama's economic-stimulus package last month.

Two weeks later, he found himself caught in the middle of a congressional debate over the size and direction of a behemoth stimulus package.

Mr. Obama said the statistics were further proof that his multi-billion-dollar stimulus package needed to be passed as a matter of urgency.

Obama has done the right things, mostly, pushing through a huge stimulus package and bailing out a few big corporations and banks.

But, as the subsequent market sag hinted, the stimulus package may not be all that it seems.

can I go down to the local bar and down a few drinks and call it a stimulus package?

I wonder why no one in Congress or the Obama administration has thought of that as a potential consequence of their stimulus package.

Mr. Kent cited China's massive stimulus package, which he said has boosted manufacturing growth, increased loans and capped unemployment.

Last night, Obama said the time to pass the economic stimulus package is now, otherwise, he says, crisis could turn into catastrophe.

Mr Obama spent much of his first week trying to push his gargantuan stimulus package through Congress.

Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

Mr Wu appeared to dismiss mining industry hopes of a rebound in consumption on the back of the stimulus package.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson canceled his planned visit and stayed in Washington to help hammer out a stimulus package.

Matters would be worse if it were not for Washington's stimulus package, which provides more than $135 billion to support state budgets.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the measures are "timely, targeted and temporary" -- the three goals for an economic stimulus package.

Even if a stimulus package temporarily reduced unemployment, in this theory, it would be entirely ineffective over the long haul.

In her speech, Clinton also repeated her proposal made last week for a new economic stimulus package that would focus on the housing slump.

Together with an increase in bank lending, this was sufficient upbeat news to dampen expectations of a new stimulus package.

The prospects for a second stimulus package (on top of the tax rebates sent out earlier this year) will rise, as a result of the jobs data.

US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the stimulus package aimed to make more lending available to consumers.

Elkhart resident Helen Tastello wanted to know if any of the money in the stimulus package would come directly to her town.

And last week a senior US Democrat said that legislators must be willing to consider the possibility of a second economic stimulus package.

That's where you throw good money after bad, or as the government calls it, a stimulus package.

The Democrats said they would also push for a second fiscal stimulus package, though not necessarily as part of this legislation.

The White House has already stressed that the December 3 jobs conference will not be about a second stimulus package.

Some sort of stimulus package was expected, but the timing surprised economists.

But the stimulus package only accounts for a part of the massive deficit the US federal government is projected to run this year.

Senate Republicans are open to a stimulus package, but say tax relief must be an essential part of the plan.

Some 43% said the U. S. will need another stimulus package on the order of nearly $500 billion.

The president also wants to see a Chinese stimulus package.

The President has indicated he wants inputs from business leaders, as he received on the stimulus package this past week.

Experts say the number shows some benefit from the White House stimulus package, but that a full recovery is going to take some time.

The U. S. economy is still shrinking, five months after Congress agreed to President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package.

Such a requirement, they say, is justified in an economic-stimulus package.

So far, Obama's stimulus package does not include refundable credits, though they could be included in later legislation.

While the White House has indicated it is open to a second stimulus package, officials have been cool to most Democratic spending proposals.

it also has an ideological dimension, as seen in the US debate over the efficacy of the stimulus package and the bail-out of Wall Street.

He said when it comes to implementing the $787 billion stimulus package there is no room for error.

This is like a drop in the ocean when compared with the stimulus package, which is to be spent in the next couple of years.

In reality, the so-called stimulus package was actually just a deferred tax increase of $787 billion plus interest.

The German created quite a stir recently for his remarks on China's 4-trillion-yuan economic stimulus package.

The stimulus package does seem to have helped.

Mr Wang said that the project was a rare example of a foreign company directly benefiting from China's economic stimulus package.

The economic stimulus package would have extended unemployment benefits, increased food aid to the poor and funded job-creation programs.

He said when it comes to implementing the 787-billion-dollar stimulus package there is no room for error.

the mistaken optimism surrounding the stimulus package can and should be a one-off, not the administration's modus operandi.

At the end of last week, the politburo of China's Communist party decided to continue the stimulus package launched last November.

Bank capital acted as a sort of force magnifier to the official stimulus package.

Bernanke stressed that any stimulus package must be implemented quickly and designed to be temporary.

But behind the scenes, House Republicans, who voted against Obama's first stimulus package, see little reason to vote for a second.

The government's stimulus package demonstrates that it is aware of the risks in the global economy and is prepared to act decisively.

At home, President Obama has been rallying his most ardent supporters on behalf of his stimulus package and his budget.

President-elect Barack Obama urged congressional leaders on Monday to act quickly to pass a huge stimulus package for the U. S. economy.

The last stimulus package of $168 billion, including about $105 billion in rebate checks, didn't do much to help.

Just as there is no free lunch, there is no such thing as a free stimulus package.

The implication of this new research on intelligence is that the economic-stimulus package should also be an intellectual-stimulus program.

The European Union right now is so split that it cannot even agree on an effective stimulus package.

In 2008, when it faced the global financial crisis, Beijing pegged its currency to the dollar and rolled out a massive stimulus package.

The stimulus package was a huge victory for Obama less than one month into his presidency.

But the failure to move aggressively on an international stimulus package, while expected, was still a disappointing outcome.

In his weekly broadcast on August 16th he promised a stimulus package but gave no indication of how he would pay for it.

Thus there would be little support for another stimulus package of a similar nature.

but I think it's gonna take a while before the stimulus package kicks in, before the housing market can begin to recover.

After the tax presentation, Roger Altman and Larry Summers argued for a short-term stimulus package to go with the deficit-reduction plan.

When the Chinese government launched a fiscal stimulus package a month ago, it was more a statement of intent than a battle plan.

But he chose a seemingly safer course: a medium-size stimulus package that was clearly not up to the task.

A stimulus package that does not also unclog the arteries of our banking system will never stimulate sufficiently.

It rolled out a massive economic stimulus package, estimated at 4 trillion yuan, so it looks like 8 percent could be a shoo-in.

Any retreat from that position now could doom Barack Obama's hopes of funding a stimulus package for the U. S. economy.

Green energy advocates said steps taken so far as part of the economic stimulus package look promising.

Central government is investing large resources from its stimulus package. Local sources of funding should multiply that several times.

With luck, another stimulus package will not be necessary. America will overcome its current economic woes and Europe will muddle through.

Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama said that he doubts whether the stimulus package would prove to be effective.

The 2009 stimulus package also spurred consumer price inflation to a year-over-year acceleration of 5. 5 percent in May.

I suspect another stimulus package will come eventually, sometime next year. But I doubt it will come in time to help the economy in 2009.

Richard Levin, the president of Yale, said Tobin would have wanted the stimulus package to create more jobs and contain fewer tax cuts.

"China's [stimulus] package is already paying off, " Mr Wen said at the forum's main event. "The situation is better than expected. "

Mr. Obama says the $787 billion stimulus package will save or create 3. 5 million American jobs over the next two years.

Democrats want to extend unemployment benefits and boost food aid for the poor as part of the stimulus package.

The Ministry of Finance is hard at work on a fiscal stimulus package, and the State Council could approve it within a matter of weeks.

Similar caution needs to be exercised in evaluating each element of the stimulus package.

Obama flew from Washington to Denver to sign the stimulus package instead of performing the ceremony at the White House.

Governors from the president's own Democratic Party are strongly supportive of the stimulus package.

Ms. Pelosi said she intends to move a stimulus package through the House by the President's Day legislative break.

US investment over the same period was likely to be about $172bn if projected spending based on the economic stimulus package went ahead.

A few other discussions of the current stimulus package havemuch rosier conclusions about its effects on employment and GDP.

These welcome signs indicate that the economic stimulus package that I signed earlier this year is having its intended effect.

On February 10th, at Mr Obama's urging, the Senate passed an $838 billion stimulus package designed to jolt the economy out of its coma.

Congressional leaders hope within days to send him a stimulus package to sign, probably totalling more than $800 billion.

China's economy will remain weak in the coming months and the chances of a major new stimulus package are small, the report concluded.

It just might be your own personal economic stimulus package.

Spain's government is putting together a fiscal-stimulus package as its economy slows in the wake of a construction bust.

S. recession. The Bush administration has also renewed calls for a swift economic-stimulus package to spur growth.

The company is expected to benefit from Beijing's $585bn economic stimulus package.

President Bush says he is optimistic about reaching agreement with opposition legislators on an economic stimulus package.

Mecca believes people should wait and see if the economic stimulus package takes hold as well as keeping an eye on the Federal Reserve rate.

Subsidised loans form a central plank of the stimulus package: Hanoi has paid 4 percentage points of new loans to businesses.

Increasing agricultural employment is part of a new $154 billion stimulus package that Mr. Aso announced last week.

Many details on China's stimulus package have yet to be released, but what we know so far is promising.

The lending boom came as the government rolled out a massive stimulus package to counter the effect of the global crisis.

With a huge stimulus package in the works, expect it soon to dump truck loads more banknotes on rural roads and bridges.

What about the stimulus package, with its massive increases in government spending?

As part of its stimulus package, China's government also has been subsidizing purchases of agricultural machinery.

To make the case for a big stimulus package, they released their economic forecast for the next few years.

If the US has a stimulus package, why should the benefit of it extend to other countries?

The United States contemplates a US$ 820 billion stimulus package over two years.

The government's new stimulus package reintroduces a subsidy for green technologies to encourage such a shift.

In 2009 and 2010, China looked like a genius for its bold action with a stimulus package and investment in infrastructure.

The stimulus package -- I know the state was strapped with its commitment and what it had to with those monies.

The Senate is expected to approve this week its version of the stimulus package aimed at creating or saving three to four million jobs.

But no stimulus package could have come close to preventing 2. 5 million job losses over six months.

But we are now told the broad economic stimulus package Obama is pushing for won't be ready for a signature the day he takes office.

Some officials say the most worrying element of the infrastructure-heavy stimulus package is the fixation with building airports.

Mr Obama had a relatively easy time communicating the value of the recent economic stimulus package.

President Obama's stimulus package, which offers money for "green" infrastructure investment, will accelerate that pace, experts say.

Educators have applauded the inclusion of money for education in the stimulus package.

Today, the president is likely to sign a $787 billion stimulus package, including more than $550 billion in public spending.

Yet, any macroeconomic benefits of the stimulus package will be easily undermined if stimulus funds are spent building bridges to nowhere.

Furthermore, the stimulus package promises considerable investment in health, education and rural services.

The February stimulus package was badly designed, and its anaemic effects offset by soaring oil and food prices.

Testifying on Capitol Hill Monday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Congress should consider another stimulus package.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called saving the press a "duty of the state" and unveiled a mini-stimulus package in January.

Like a cosmic Economic Stimulus Package, Wednesday's new moon energizes your sector of income.

The government has responded in textbook fashion, unveiling what appears to be a massive fiscal stimulus package.

The battle over the stimulus package has seen Obama's early promise of uniting the country in the fight for economic recovery disappear.

Record lending and a 4 trillion-yuan ($600 billion) stimulus package pumped up growth during the financial crisis.

As Japan continues to struggle with its prolonged economic slump, AKB48 has become a one-group stimulus package.

As a Rubin disciple, he believes in fiscal responsibility, but he also supports a major stimulus package.

Some parliamentarians , civil servants and public commentators are worried that it may be difficult to finance a big stimulus package.

But most economists think the stimulus package will be enough to keep growth at 7. 5-8% for the year as a whole.

We have based our economic stimulating efforts on expanding domestic demand, and resolutely adopted an economic stimulus package.

The last time China did this was in 2008, in preparation for its big post-Lehman stimulus package.

Could Google provide a stimulus package to help boost the ailing U. S. economy?

That deal is so big that some politicians likened it to another stimulus package.

The stimulus package is the country's second in two months and follows similar moves by governments worldwide.

Through measures like those included in the stimulus package, Beijing is hoping to limit the potential social instability of urbanization.

China has avoided any such difficulties with its 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus package announced in November.

China's stimulus package was the earliest and best-known example of fiscal shock and awe.

In November, China announced a $585 billion economic stimulus package to be fully invested by the end of 2010.

The slowing decline in Chinese trade has also been taken as a sign that the country's stimulus package is working.

As for the 'stimulus' package, both its size and structure were inadequate to offset the enormous decline in aggregate demand.

Pelosi noted that Democrats are already working on a second economic-stimulus package.

Come the global crisis in 2008, a huge stimulus package driven by frenetic bank lending swept away 10 years of reform.

And critics have called both the stimulus package and the details that have emerged about the banking plan piecemeal, misdirected, or both.

Details of the stimulus package have remained vague since its unveiling, and Thursday's speech shed little light on them.

A massive government economic stimulus package and state bank lending buoyed the economy in 2009 and much of this year.

But the magnitude and composition of the stimulus package are a matter of debate.

The miners are resisting the call and delaying the negotiations, gambling that Beijing's stimulus package will boost steel demand this year.

China has continued growing through the recession, in part owing to a $586bn stimulus package.

Turn this into modern economic jargon and Law could be described as creating a stimulus package for French economic activity.

Politicians and pundits alike were making a case for a fiscal stimulus package even before the Fed's surprise rate cut on January 22nd.

Of course, President Bush promised too much when he suggested that a stimulus package would keep the economy "healthy" .

The stimulus package was designed to keep unemployment in check amid the longest recession since the 1930s.

Nor did the actual stimulus package voted by Congresscorrespond very closely to the theory behind the multiplier from government spending .

The White House announced today that the stimulus package saved 3 million jobs.

Since taking office in January, President Obama has expanded that policy and introduced a massive economic stimulus package.

If China is going to 'rescue the world' from economic crisis, this kind of stimulus package is the way to do it.

Massive bank lending over the past year, part of Beijing's stimulus package, has found its way into real estate speculation.

The increase in the budget deficit could be much smaller and more easily reversed than is the case with President Obama's stimulus package.

Opposition Democrats say an economic stimulus package should include greater spending on social programs.

Malcolm Turnbull, the Liberal leader, wants tax cuts, not public spending, to boost the economy, and opposes the stimulus package.

Republicans are advocating a much smaller stimulus package that focuses mostly on tax cuts and spending on infrastructure.

But lawmakers from both parties wanted to keep the measure in the stimulus package, rather than pass it separately later in the year.

President-elect Obama's advisers have called for a vast stimulus package of $750 billion or more.

He praised the economic stimulus package approved by the House of Representatives and urged the Senate to follow suit.

Economists were divided over whether the $787 billion economic-stimulus package passed last month is enough.

And China's stimulus package has produced much needed infrastructure that will reinforce future growth.

When China's government announced its stimulus package in November 2008, the pessimists claimed that it contained little new money.

November's announcement of an economic stimulus package helped start the rally.

In 2009, Congress authorized funding to promote electronic health records as part of the economic stimulus package.

To cope with this downturn, Beijing in November announced its own $586 billion stimulus package.

S. there have been some preferences for local purchases in stimulus package projects.

Unfortunately, the pending stimulus package is not aimed at boosting profits.

Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, who joined Collins in drafting a compromise on the stimulus package, also voiced concerns about the budget.

He expects that the effects of the stimulus package should be known by year's end.

The economic stimulus package should be in full force by the summer.

The crisis has also spurred Beijing to line up a multi-billion dollar stimulus package.

With little appetite in Congress to provide a major new stimulus package, more pressure falls on Bernanke to keep the recovery going.

In Brussels the European Commission has called for an EU-wide stimulus package worth around $260 billion.

As a stimulus package, that beats the Spanish government's by a factor of ten.

Congressional leaders, contemplating a colossal economic-stimulus package, needed to know where he was headed.

Summary: Republicans and the deficit stand in the way of a new stimulus package.

In January, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the deficit this year would be $1. 2 trillion before the stimulus package.

Earlier this year, China pledged a third of its $586bn fiscal stimulus package on clean energy spending.

On the latter, nothing can surpass the folly of the "Buy America" provision in the draft US stimulus package.

Of course we don't have instant medicine. But with this stimulus package we are confident that the economy will recover.

But thanks to President Barack Obama's stimulus package, efforts to get faster trains on track may finally be gaining speed.

Democratic-controlled Congress approved $10. 5 billion for high-speed rail, most of it in the 2009 stimulus package.

WEN: From what you said, I think you have not seen our stimulus package in its full or in its entirety.

Yet it is now more than oneyear later, and only about a half of the stimulus package has been spent.

American lawmakers have already put "Buy America" provisions into the country's stimulus package.

The Obama administration's efforts to combat the recession include an $800 billion economic stimulus package enacted earlier this year.

The stimulus package also includes billions of dollars for dozens of rural and community health programmes.

The "Buy America" clause in the $787 billion stimulus package signed into law on Tuesday has a certain quaintness to it.

Nor does the stimulus package offer much relief for real-estate companies exposed to the sudden downturn.

At Sunday night, the State Council announced stimulus package to boost domestic demand and to loosen credit policy.

The most telling thing about the recent calls for a second stimulus package in the US is that the bond market has looked the other way.

In his speech, Mr Wen stressed the breadth of the stimulus package.

The mistakes of critics of China's stimulus package can be set out against that framework.

Also the president is expected to sign the 787 billion dollar stimulus package tomorrow.

All indications are that the new administration will offer a major stimulus package.

All else being equal, China's stimulus package should be sufficient to absorb the newly unemployed and keep growth above 6 per cent.

China's massive $600 billion stimulus package has been directed at further enlarging China's productive capacity rather than consumption.

He told another follower that he wanted public hearings on the stimulus package, but that Nancy Pelosi was standing in the way.

On January 2nd India announced its second monetary and fiscal stimulus package within a month, but the extra spending is tiny.

Meanwhile, efforts continue in Washington to craft an economic stimulus package.

Beijing wants domestic banks to help finance its Rmb4, 000bn stimulus package by lending more money.

He asked Congress to approve a smaller stimulus package than his economic advisors said was necessary.

Unless this really is the final collapse of capitalism, that stimulus package will eventually work.

They are proposing a higher-impact stimulus package that addresses future needs and national competitiveness.

President-elect Barack Obama, who takes office January 20, wants Congress to pass a stimulus package by early next month, at the latest.

Japan's stimulus plan followed the passing of a Y1, 800bn supplementary budget earlier this month to fund the first stimulus package.

That goal looks in jeopardy, mainly because the $586bn stimulus package rolled out in 2008 favoured China's biggest and dirtiest industries.

Some observers are already saying she's a one-woman stimulus package for the fashion industry.

The U. S. launched a $787 billion fiscal-stimulus package last month.

In fairness, Mr Ornstein reaches this verdict by taking a very upbeat view of the stimulus package.

China's stimulus package is designed to both sustain economic growth and improve people's livelihood.

Whether the stimulus package will prevent a recession is anyone's guess.

Asian and Pacific markets surged on Monday as China announced the stimulus package, CNN reported.

He also suggested that an additional stimulus package could help Beijing reach its own 8 per cent target.

So the fiscal stimulus package is directed mainly at the inner regions and rural economies.

Washington has put forward an array of measures, including a $787 billion stimulus package, to revive the bleeding economy.

Despite the wobbly recovery, there's little appetite in Congress to enact a major new stimulus package.

News of China's stimulus package helped push oil prices higher at midday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

President Bush is considering an economic stimulus package that could include more tax cuts.

Beijing seeks to achieve these goals by directing a significant share of China's $590bn economic stimulus package to low-carbon investment.

The Fed chairman refused to issue a judgment on the Obama administration's $787 billion fiscal stimulus package.

To accomplish this, the US will need both a sizeable stimulus package and to address certain troubled industries.

Denmark has become a pioneer among developed countries by considering a new fiscal stimulus package.

The actual figure will probably be higher if Congress approves a new stimulus package of spending and tax cuts that could top $800 billion.

Mr. Aso said that the stimulus package would tap special government reserves and not add to Japan's mushrooming national debt.

EU leaders are expected to approve the final stimulus package during a summit, later this month.

On domestic matters, he favours a stimulus package, but opposes a return to the LDP's big-spending ways.

Economists say that a $62 billion fiscal-stimulus package the new government consists largely of pork-barrel public-works project spending.

and it's hard to see the good in offering a meagre stimulus package.

You may be planning a personal stimulus package, single-handedly helping the economy by shopping.

China's steel over-production is overwhelming demand created by the government's stimulus package and depressing profits for larger mills.

And, he added, there is the delayed, but still expected, fiscal stimulus package from Washington.

It is important that some version of President Barack Obama's stimulus package gets approved by Congress as quickly as possible.

Both Brussels and Beijing have rolled out their own fiscal stimulus package to support domestic growth.

Indeed, even after the new stimulus package, China will still depend on investment and export for growth.

China can also cite its own hefty stimulus package as an example of how it is shifting away from the export model.

The stimulus worked, and became an essential component of Keynesian policies, inspiring the stimulus package of 2009.

The broader reason for questioning the "green" impact of the stimulus package is that it aims to boost the economy via construction.

In January, Mr. Koesterich says, hopes for the new Obama administration's stimulus package could help stocks.

Cranking up a second stimulus package would help address unemployment concerns -- but also would add to the budget deficit.

With public discontent growing, the Kremlin put in place a massive stimulus package.

America's stimulus package, by contrast, musters only $8 billion for high-speed rail, with some extra requested in this year's budget.

HSBC gives warning that credit trends can be seasonal and that a boost to the economy from the government stimulus package may wear off.